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100 Patacas Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a stylized outline of a rat in the left field, rendered in a bold, simplified artistic style against a plain silver background. The right half of the coin bears a vivid polychrome enamel panel depicting red peony blossoms with green foliage on a yellow ground, representing traditional Chinese decorative motifs associated with the lunar new year. The denomination '100圓 / PATACAS' appears to the left of the rat figure, with the cyclical year designation '戊子年' and the Gregorian year '2008' inscribed below. The legend '中國 澳門' is positioned along the upper arc in Chinese characters, and 'MACAU, CHINA' appears along the lower arc in Latin script. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script), Latin |
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| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script), Latin |
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